Subchorionic hematoma
I have been diagnosed with subchorionic hematoma. I am 7 weeks pregnant.
On Saturday night just gone I started to have bright red bleeding. Of course I expected the worst and rushed straight to hospital. They did a blood and urine test and tried to do a scan but my bladder was not full enough.
They told me to go home and rest and come back the next morning for a scan. The dr said she had bright red bleeding during her pregnancy and was positive about it.
The nurse told me to brace for the worst as she had rarely seen a positive outcome from such bleeding.
I went back Sunday morning and had the ultrasound. There was a little pea with a strong heartbeat staring back at us. We were shocked.
The red bleeding had stopped and I had a little brown spotting.
That night the bright red blood came back and I passed some tissue which I believed to be the sack with my baby inside. I again raced to the hospital.
They were flat out and said I would be waiting hours to be seen. I was feeling very nauseous and was in a lot of pain so decided to go home and take some pain relief and see my gp the next morning.
By the time I got home I could barely walk the pain was so strong. I thought for sure this was the end.
I saw my gp the next morning and took him the tissue I had passed. He believed it was the sack also. He sent me for a blood test and sent the tissue away for testing.
I went back the following day for the results (Tuesday) and he was confused by the results. The blood test showed my hormones were still rising and the tissue was not any contents of conception. (Not the sack or the baby).
He sent me for an urgent scan.
Again there was my little baby staring back at me still alive with a strong heartbeat.
I still don't believe it! For 2 days I believed my rainbow baby was another angel baby (I had a MMC in June this year).
Amazing! Such a little fighter.
They say I have a subchorionic hematoma and it can fix itself and in lost cases does no harm to a pregnancy.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Hope this helps others who start bleeding to have some hope it's not the end. I had no idea about subchorionic hematomas until it happened to me.
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